Climate Change News and Articles

2013-12-30 Icy Irony — "The leader of a scientific expedition whose ship remains stranded in Antarctic ice says the team, which set out to prove climate change, is 'stuck in our own experiment.' But Chris Turney, a professor of climate change at Australia’s University of New South Wales, said it was "silly" to suggest he and 73 others aboard the MV Akademic Shokalskiy were trapped in ice they'd sought to prove had melted. He remained adamant that sea ice is melting, even as the boat remained trapped in frozen seas...." [I love the irony. Kind of like all the times it has unexpectedly snowed at global warming conferences. I wonder if Turney fails to prove man-made climate change is causing ice melt if he'll keep his job as "professor of climate change"? Just asking.]

2013-12-26 An Inconvenient Truth About Fracking — "...A new study by the University of Texas found the [fracking] process actually saves water and prevents droughts. 'The bottom line is that hydraulic fracturing, by boosting natural gas production and moving the state from water-intensive coal technologies, makes our electric power system more drought-resilient,' Bridget Scanlon, senior research scientist at UT's Bureau of Economic Geology, said. For every gallon of water used by fracking, Texas saved 33 gallons by using that water to produce electricity from natural gas instead of coal."

2013-12-09 Antarctica sets record for coldest temp ever recorded — "A new look at NASA satellite data revealed that Earth set a new record for coldest temperature recorded. It happened in August 2010 when it hit -135.8 degrees. Then on July 31 of this year, it came close again: -135.3 degrees. The old record had been -128.6 degrees...."

2013-11-04 Antarctic sea ice hits 35-year record high — "Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world. On Saturday, the ice extent reached 19.51 million square kilometers, according to data posted on the National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site. That number bested record high levels set earlier this month and in 2012 (of 19.48 million square kilometers). Records date back to October 1978."

2013-09-30 Al Gore: Civilization may not survive next 100 years — "What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before." [You don't have to be a scientist to know that Gore is blowing enough hot air to single-handedly melt the polar ice caps...]

2013-09-20 Climategate II: Scientists pushed to hide data — "Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show there are deep concerns among governments over how to address the issue ahead of next week's meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change..... Several governments that reviewed the draft objected to how the issue was tackled, in comments to the IPCC obtained by the AP. Germany called for the reference to the slowdown to be deleted, saying a time span of 10-15 years was misleading in the context of climate change, which is measured over decades and centuries...."

2013-09-18 Threat of man-made global warming greatly exaggerated, new study — A peer-reviewed climate change study released Wednesday by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change finds the threat of man-made global warming to be not only greatly exaggerated but so small as to be 'embedded within the background variability of the natural climate system' and not dangerous.... 'Point to the model that predicted this hiatus,' one of the authors said. 'No increase in violent weather , no increase in hurricanes. All of this and we're still supposed to believe the models... models they picked because they supported their political interests, not because they represented good science.'

2013-09-07 Record return of Arctic ice cap — "A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year — an increase of 60 per cent. The rebound ... comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013...."

2013-09-07 Hurricane season a dud despite dire predictions — "The preseason predictions were all dire, using words like 'extremely active' and 'above-normal' to describe the forecast for the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season.... However, the season so far has been a welcome if unexpected dud, with not a single hurricane yet through the first week of September.... In fact, the season is about to enter record territory for its unusual lack of hurricanes...."

2013-09-06 Carbon tax backfires big-time in Australia — "The ruling Labor Party’s probable collapse in Australia’s next election is largely the consequence of its qualified success in the last one three years ago. To form the coalition she needed to stay in power, then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard reneged on a promise and agreed to place a carbon tax on major polluters. On Saturday, the bill for that bargain comes due. Voters have never stopped hating the tax and its effect on their electric bills. Longtime Labor Party supporters — even people who have helped cut pollution by installing solar panels at home — have flocked to the opposition...."

2013-08-20 Leaked climate report draft struggles with drop in warming — "An unreleased draft of the U.N.'s next major climate report reportedly states that scientists are more certain than ever that man’s actions are warming the planet — even as the report struggles to explain a slow-down in warming..."

2013-08-13 DC climate change rally flops — "A 'climate change' agenda event scheduled for Tuesday in Georgetown, D.C, attracted exactly zero people.... The event was organized by the nonprofit political advocacy group Organizing for Action, a leftover from President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. And not only did the event supposedly fail to attract a single concerned citizen, but OFA has apparently deleted all traces of its 'Climate Change Day of Action Rally' from its website...."

2013-08-13 Feds close 600 faulty weather stations — "the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has closed some 600 out of nearly 9,000 weather stations over the past two years that it has deemed problematic or unnecessary, after a long campaign by one critic highlighting the problem of using unreliable data...."

2013-08-10 Almost 400 ppm of CO2? Whoop-de-doo — "Those that want to make today's weather seem like the 'worst ever' often make ludicrous claims trying to link weather to high CO2 levels. For example, that extra CO2 gives the weather 'personality'.... "

2013-05-26 To The Horror Of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here — "At first the current stall out of global warming was due to the ocean cycles turning back to cold. But something much more ominous has developed over this period. Sunspots run in 11 year short term cycles, with longer cyclical trends of 90 and even 200 years. The number of sunspots declined substantially in the last 11 year cycle, after flattening out over the previous 20 years. But in the current cycle, sunspot activity has collapsed...."

2013-05-26 Over 30 inches of snow on Memorial Day weekend — "It's a snowy Memorial Day weekend for parts of the U.S. On the aptly named Whiteface Mountain in upstate New York, there are at least 34 inches of snow on the ground.... Snowfall in the north east this late in the season hasn't been unheard of since then: the area tends to get some late season snowfall every 5-10 years. Just not nearly as much as this time." [I bet those global warming alarmists are relieved that they renamed their crusade "climate change", which also helps prevent them from embarking on ice age hysteria like they did in the 1970s.]

2013-02-01 Report shows UN admitting solar activity may play significant role in global warming — "A leaked report by a United Nations’ group dedicated to climate studies says that heat from the sun may play a larger role than previously thought.... Even after the IPCC acknowledges extensive evidence for ... solar forcing beyond what they included in their models, they still make no attempt to account for this omission in their predictions."

2013-01-18 Government Scientist Fired for Telling the Truth — "The Department of Interior is misleading the public and purging scientists who don't go along with an increasingly radical green agenda. Eight government scientists were recently fired or reassigned after voicing concerns to their superiors about faulty environmental science used for policy decisions." [YouTube video available also]

2013-01-14 Cold Grips West; Crops Damaged — As an unusual cold spell gripped parts of the West for a fifth day, some California citrus growers reported damage to crops and an agriculture official said national prices on lettuce have started to rise because of lost produce in Arizona.

2013-01-13 Nation's Landmarks Feel Temperature Extremes— Bitterly cold temperatures gripped the West. In Arizona, the Grand Canyon airport observed a low of 20 degrees below zero Sunday morning. That appeared to tie the all-time record low for the Grand Canyon since records began in 1976, previously set Dec. 23, 1990 and on the first two days of February 1985.... Extremes were part of a stark division between very cold air in the West and balmy air covering most of the East... West Yellowstone, Mont., dropped to 39 below zero Sunday morning.

2013-01-13 NOAA Temperature Fraud Expands — "The current NOAA claim is that 2012 is 1.0 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than 1998, but 1934 used to be 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than 1998. This means that prior to adjustment, 1934 was hotter than 2012.... A cooling trend has been turned into a warming trend, by adjusting the data. NOAA makes bold press releases based on hugely altered data, and makes no mention that the data is altered. Then when called out, they claim that the adjustments are small, when in fact the adjustments are larger than the trend. The 1930s used to be by far the hottest decade, before the data was adjusted."

2013-01-10 Was 2012 the Hottest Year? Alarmists Blowing Hot Air Again — "NOAA has inflated the 2012 record maximum number by adding new stations which didn't exist during the hot years of the 1930s. That is a completely illegitimate approach, suitable only for government workers. An apples to apples comparison uses only the same stations. When that is done, 2012 doesn’t even crack the ten hottest years."

2013-01-10 Are biofuels starving the world's poor? — "As corn prices skyrocket and land is removed from food production to produce ethanol, some unintended consequences of fuel policies designed to cut carbon emissions are coming into focus...."

2013-01-10 Record cold kills 80 in Bangladesh — "...the last time the temperature had dropped below 3ºC was in February 1968 when Bangladesh was still part of Pakistan..."